History Main / UnwantedFalseFaith

* The last we see of Damien in ''DropTheDeadDonkey'' is as a captive of a primitive rainforest tribe, an object of worship in a cage. The penultimate shots are filmed from his point of view, but then they destroy his camera and build effigies of it instead. For the first few scenes he is happy enough with his new-found status, but once they destroy the camera, he realises there is no likelihood that they will release him...

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* The last we see of Damien in ''DropTheDeadDonkey'' ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'' is as a captive of a primitive rainforest tribe, an object of worship in a cage. The penultimate shots are filmed from his point of view, but then they destroy his camera and build effigies of it instead. For the first few scenes he is happy enough with his new-found status, but once they destroy the camera, he realises there is no likelihood that they will release him...

* In Linnea Sinclair's ''An Accidental Goddess'', the heroine wakes up and discovers that (a) [[RipVanWinkle she's lost a few centuries somewhere]] and (b) she's been branded a major deity. Awwwkward....

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* In Linnea Sinclair's Creator/LinneaSinclair's ''An Accidental Goddess'', the heroine wakes up and discovers that (a) [[RipVanWinkle she's lost a few centuries somewhere]] and (b) she's been branded a major deity. Awwwkward....

** However, it has been has been strongly implied that the robots' belief that Kat is [[spoierler: an angel]] might not be so false after all. [[spoiler: Kat looks like a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent vaguely angelic]] EldritchAbomination made of metal through Zimmy's eyes.]]

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** However, it has been has been strongly implied that the robots' belief that Kat is [[spoierler: [[spoiler: an angel]] might not be so false after all. [[spoiler: Kat looks like a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent vaguely angelic]] EldritchAbomination made of metal through Zimmy's eyes.]]

** Said faith is not entirely false. Pete the gryphon, who is an actual demigod has confirmed that Zach really is a prophet, or he was before the U&U game ended.

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** However, it has been has been strongly implied that the robots' belief that Kat is [[spoierler: an angel]] might not be so false after all. [[spoiler: Kat looks like a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent vaguely angelic]] EldritchAbomination made of metal through Zimmy's eyes.]]

* Quain'tana of ''{{Drowtales}}'' hates how her followers and the common folk of [[UndergroundCity Chel'el'Sussoloth]] have begun to idolize her as some kind of mythical warrior queen for fighting against the current ruling class, especially since said ruling clan idolized Sharess, a former queen, and used her cult as a means to control the populace back at the beginning of the city's history.

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* Quain'tana of ''{{Drowtales}}'' ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' hates how her followers and the common folk of [[UndergroundCity Chel'el'Sussoloth]] have begun to idolize her as some kind of mythical warrior queen for fighting against the current ruling class, especially since said ruling clan idolized Sharess, a former queen, and used her cult as a means to control the populace back at the beginning of the city's history.

** Several times people in the Bible are so overwhelmed upon being visited by an angel that they start worshipping the angel. The angels tend to immediately tell them to stop that: angels are mere messengers of God, and any worship should be directed in God's direction.

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** Several times people in the Bible are so overwhelmed upon being visited by an angel that they start worshipping the angel. The angels tend to immediately tell them to stop that: angels are mere messengers of God, and any worship should be directed in God's direction.towards God Himself, not them.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', Atrus sometimes visited Ages where he was immediately treated like a god upon arrival, an example being the Tree-Dweellers of the Channelwood Age. He reputedly disliked this treatment, preferring being simple friends to the natives. Given how his egocentric father, Gehn, [[AGoodAmI wanted Atrus to see things his way]], this is understandable.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', Atrus sometimes visited Ages where he was immediately treated like a god upon arrival, an example being the Tree-Dweellers of the Channelwood Age. He reputedly disliked this treatment, preferring being simple friends to the natives. Given how his egocentric father, Gehn, [[AGoodAmI [[AGodAmI wanted Atrus to see things his way]], this is understandable.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', Atrus sometimes visited Ages where he was immediately treated like a god upon arrival, an example being the Tree-Dweellers of the Channelwood Age. He reputedly disliked this treatment, preferring being simple friends to the natives. Given how his egocentric father, Gehn, [[AGoodAmI wanted Atrus to see things his way]], this is understandable.

* In the TV version of ''TheMartianChronicles'', a telepathic, shapeshifting Martian encounters a priest who's undergoing a crisis of faith. Since the priest longs to meet Jesus, his thoughts force the Martian to take on {{Jesus}}' appearance. The Martian begs the priest not to see him as the Messiah because he can't bear the responsibility, and fears he'll be trapped in Jesus' image forever. The priest asks the martian to go whenever he pleases and come back as Jesus only personally for him and only on Easter.

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* In the TV version of ''TheMartianChronicles'', ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'', a telepathic, shapeshifting Martian encounters a priest who's undergoing a crisis of faith. Since the priest longs to meet Jesus, his thoughts force the Martian to take on {{Jesus}}' appearance. The Martian begs the priest not to see him as the Messiah because he can't bear the responsibility, and fears he'll be trapped in Jesus' image forever. The priest asks the martian to go whenever he pleases and come back as Jesus only personally for him and only on Easter.

* The titular Brian from ''MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' has some difficulty convincing his "followers" that he's not The Messiah, given that they think [[MistakenForProfound every word he says has hidden meaning]]. See page quote.* In ''TheInventionOfLying'', Mark lives on an Earth where lying didn't exist until he came up with the idea one day. When his mother is about to die, he tries to comfort her by telling her rather than just not-existing, she'll go to a happy place ruled over by "[[PhysicalGod The Man in the Sky]]." Unfortunately, the people nearby hear, and make him tell more about it until he ends up inventing Christianity, with to the point that he has to crash his true love's wedding in a chapel devoted to The Man in the Sky.* This is part of TheReveal in ''TheManFromEarth''. Professor John [[PunnyName Oldman]] is on the verge of suddenly moving away when he tells his friends and colleagues that he is [[Really700YearsOld actually a 14,000]] [[TimeAbyss year old immortal]]. Intrigued, his fellow professors try to prove his story false. Eventually they get around to asking John if he was ever anyone famous. [[spoiler:It turns out John was once a student of [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} The Buddha]], and decided to do some preaching of his own. Through a combination of people misinterpreting his words and their shock when he didn't die, he wound up becoming Jesus. Despite John's frantic efforts to explain, the religion got started, and he's been privately mortified ever since.]]* [=C-3PO=], in ''ReturnOfTheJedi'': The Ewoks mistake him for a deity, much to his embarrassment. And also because it's somehow ''against his programming'' to impersonate a deity. Presumably Anakin thought it was funny.

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* The titular Brian from ''MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' has some difficulty convincing his "followers" that he's not The Messiah, given that they think [[MistakenForProfound every word he says has hidden meaning]]. See page quote.* In ''TheInventionOfLying'', ''Film/TheInventionOfLying'', Mark lives on an Earth where lying didn't exist until he came up with the idea one day. When his mother is about to die, he tries to comfort her by telling her rather than just not-existing, she'll go to a happy place ruled over by "[[PhysicalGod The Man in the Sky]]." Unfortunately, the people nearby hear, and make him tell more about it until he ends up inventing Christianity, with to the point that he has to crash his true love's wedding in a chapel devoted to The Man in the Sky.* This is part of TheReveal in ''TheManFromEarth''.''Film/TheManFromEarth''. Professor John [[PunnyName Oldman]] is on the verge of suddenly moving away when he tells his friends and colleagues that he is [[Really700YearsOld actually a 14,000]] [[TimeAbyss year old immortal]]. Intrigued, his fellow professors try to prove his story false. Eventually they get around to asking John if he was ever anyone famous. [[spoiler:It turns out John was once a student of [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} The Buddha]], and decided to do some preaching of his own. Through a combination of people misinterpreting his words and their shock when he didn't die, he wound up becoming Jesus. Despite John's frantic efforts to explain, the religion got started, and he's been privately mortified ever since.]]* [=C-3PO=], in ''ReturnOfTheJedi'': ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': The Ewoks mistake him for a deity, much to his embarrassment. And also because it's somehow ''against his programming'' to impersonate a deity. Presumably Anakin thought it was funny.

* In ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed'', Pidgey (later Pidgeot) became [[CrutchCharacter so powerful]] he was referred to in canon as "Bird Jesus" and attracted his share of worship. Cue the mob catching a different Pidgey in ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal''. Many latched onto it as the reincarnation of Bird Jesus, others... [[http://imgur.com/bX1qiww had a different opinion.]] This has actually become a theme of the second one: [[FanNickname Brian]] (yes, the second Pidgey, [[LifeOfBrian for exactly those reasons]]) is now held as not wanting to be seen as Bird Jesus 2.0 but himself, while Lasergator is in RageAgainstTheHeavens mode (the previous game's Helix Fossil and later Omastar is considered a god).

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* In ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed'', Pidgey (later Pidgeot) became [[CrutchCharacter so powerful]] he was referred to in canon as "Bird Jesus" and attracted his share of worship. Cue the mob catching a different Pidgey in ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal''. Many latched onto it as the reincarnation of Bird Jesus, others... [[http://imgur.com/bX1qiww had a different opinion.]] This has actually become a theme of the second one: [[FanNickname Brian]] (yes, the second Pidgey, [[LifeOfBrian [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian for exactly those reasons]]) is now held as not wanting to be seen as Bird Jesus 2.0 but himself, while Lasergator is in RageAgainstTheHeavens mode (the previous game's Helix Fossil and later Omastar is considered a god).

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